 | Black Ice by AC/DC
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £3.34 How did we ever doubt them?
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 | Dear Science by TV on the Radio
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.45 More accessible than Cookie Mountain, this is still a thing of great beauty
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 | We Are the Physics by We Are the Physics
Buy new: £10.79 / Used from: £4.48 Best live band of the last few years, this long-awaited debut album did not disappoint. DEVO influenced party punks.
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 | Black Sheep by Julian Cope
Buy new: £10.88 / Used from: £8.75 Atheist/pantheist/wiccan album of the year. Cope rediscovers melody, hooks and a wicked turn of phrase
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 | Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends by Coldplay
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.14 I was surprised to find I really liked most of this album
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 | Oracular Spectacular by MGMT
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £2.51 This year's leading proponents of the 'Brooklyn sound'
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 | Crystal Castles by Crystal Castles
Buy used from: £4.00 Squelchy Atari chip electro
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 | Made in the Dark by Hot Chip
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.98 Strong follow-up to The Warning, packed with choons
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 | Vampire Weekend by Vampire Weekend
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £3.25 |
 | You Have No Idea What You're Getting Yourself Into by Does It Offend You Yeah?
Buy new: £8.88 / Used from: £5.81 Best Brit-Indie debut
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 | The Age Of Understatement by The Last Shadow Puppets
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £4.49 Alex Turner - together with Miles Kane and James Ford, demonstrates there are more strings to his bow than Arctic Monkeys' streetwise sonic attack
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 | Censored Colors by Portugal The Man
Buy new: £15.19 / Used from: £9.72 Another overlooked masterpiece by Alaska's finest
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 | Fantasy Black Channel by Late of the Pier
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £6.00 Slightly wonky but very catchy indie
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 | Beat Pyramid by These New Puritans
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £4.36 More quality UK indie
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 | At Mount Zoomer by Wolf Parade
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £6.75 A worthy follow-up to 'Apologies to the Queen Mary'
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 | ...Earth to the Dandy Warhols... by The Dandy Warhols
Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £3.77 The Dandy Warhols rediscover their mojo
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 | Knowle West Boy by Tricky
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £4.74 Return to form for Tricky
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 | Punkara by Asian Dub Foundation
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £6.61 Best ADF album in years
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 | Break Up the Concrete by The Pretenders
Buy new: £15.69 / Used from: £9.63 Awesome comeback album - look out for the 2CD set combined with their Best Of - it's cheaper than this 1CD version
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 | Fits & Starts by O Fracas
Buy new: £10.79 / Used from: £2.80 More generic wonky UK indie, good stuff though
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 | Antidotes by Foals
Buy new: £8.18 / Used from: £2.49 'Fits and Starts' is a better title for this album than for the O Fracas album above - jittery jazz-punk at its best
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 | Midnight Boom by The Kills
Buy new: £6.48 / Used from: £5.80 Alison Mosshart obviously impressed Jack White with this album, as he has since recruited her for Dead Weather
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 | Vantage Point by Deus
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £5.25 Not quite up to the level of Pocket Revolution, but still a great album from Belgium's second-finest
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 | Acres of Dead Space Cadets by Elle Milano
Buy new: £10.79 / Used from: £1.49 Elle Milano kept us waiting years for their debut, then promptly split up. Damn shame
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 | Only by the Night by Kings of Leon
Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.59 Return to form for KoL, largely thanks to solid songwriting
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